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Vermilion Booster Shots: Attractive bottom-fishing stocks

For investors looking for bottom-fishing candidates; stocks that are breaking downtrends, exhibiting ascending reaction lows, and showing stabilizing relative strength.
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AK Steel Holding Corporation

AK Steel Holding is a producer of flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels products primarily for the automotive, infrastructure and manufacturing, and distributors and converters markets through its wholly-owned subsidiary, AK Steel Corporation. The company's other subsidiaries also provide customer solutions with carbon and stainless steel tubing products, solutions, tool design, hot- and cold-stamped steel components and assemblies. The company sells its carbon steel products mainly to customers in North America, and it sells its electrical and stainless steel products primarily in North America and Europe. The company also produces metallurgical coal through its AK Coal Resources, Inc. subsidiary.

Akebia Therapeutics Inc.

Akebia Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for people living with kidney disease. The company's portfolio includes: Vadadustat, which is an investigational, oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor for two indications, anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD), in adult patients on dialysis, and anemia due to CKD in adult patients not on dialysis; and Auryxia? (ferric citrate), for the control of serum phosphorus levels in adult patients on dialysis, or the Hyperphosphatemia Indication, and the treatment of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in adult patients not on dialysis, or the IDA Indication;

APA Corp.

Apache is an independent energy company that explores for, develops, and produces natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids. The company had exploration and production operations in United States, Egypt, and offshore United Kingdom in the North Sea. The company also has exploration interests in Suriname. The company markets its United States crude oil production to main oil companies, marketing, and transportation companies, and refiners based on a West Texas Intermediate price or other regional pricing indices. The company has two international regions: The Egypt includes onshore conventional assets in Egypt's Western Desert. The North Sea region includes offshore assets based in United Kingdom.

Associated Banc-Corp

Associated Banc is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking and nonbanking products and services. The company has three segments: Corporate and Commercial Specialty, which includes lending solutions, deposit and cash management solutions, and financial services; Community, Consumer, and Business, which includes lending solutions, deposit and transactional solutions, investable funds solutions, trust and investment management accounts, insurance and benefits-related products and services, and fiduciary services; and Risk Management and Shared Services, which includes corporate risk management, credit administration, finance, treasury, and operations and technology.

Avient Corporation

PolyOne is a provider of polymer materials, services and solutions with operations in engineered materials, composites, color and additive systems and polymer distribution. The company is also a developer and manufacturer of additives, liquid colorants and fluoropolymers and silicone colorants. Co.'s segments include: Color, Additives and Inks, which is a provider of custom color and additive concentrates for thermoplastics, dispersions for thermosets, and specialty inks, plastisols, and vinyl slush molding solutions; and Specialty Engineered Materials, which is a provider of specialty polymer formulations, services and solutions for designers, assemblers and processors of thermoplastic materials.

AXT Inc.

AXT is a developer and producer of compound and single element semiconductor substrates, also known as wafers. The company's compound substrates combine indium with phosphorous (indium phosphide: InP) or gallium with arsenic (gallium arsenide: GaAs). InP is a semiconductor substrate used in, among others, fiber optic lasers and detectors, passive optical networks, metro and data center connectivity, silicon photonics, infrared motion control and infrared thermal imaging. The company also makes semi-insulating GaAs substrates used in making semiconductor chips in applications such as power amplifiers for wireless devices, transistors and solar cells for drones. In addition, the company sells certain raw materials.

Bunge Limited

Camping World Holdings Inc. Class A

Camping World Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a retailer of recreational vehicles (RVs) and RV-related products and services, and a retailer of outdoor lifestyle and active sports-related products and services. The company's segments include: consumer services and plans, which provides extended vehicle service contracts, emergency roadside assistance, property and casualty insurance programs, membership clubs, vehicle financing and refinancing, travel protection, and co-branded credit cards; dealership, which provides new vehicles and used vehicles; and retail, which includes: RV supply and maintenance products, and outdoor equipment and recreational products.

Carnival Corporation

CNO Financial Group Inc.

CNO Financial Group is a holding company for a group of insurance companies. The company's Bankers Life segment underwrites, markets and distributes Medicare supplement insurance, interest-sensitive life insurance, life insurance, fixed annuities and long-term care insurance products. The company's Washington National segment underwrites, markets and distributes supplemental health and life insurance to middle-income consumers at home and at the worksite. The company's Colonial Penn segment markets primarily graded benefit and simplified issue life insurance directly to customers in the senior middle-income market through television advertising, direct mail, the internet and telemarketing.

Coherent Inc.

Coherent is a provider of lasers, laser-based technologies and laser-based system solutions in a range of commercial, industrial and scientific applications. The company reporting segments are: OEM Laser Sources (OLS) and Industrial Lasers and Systems (ILS). The company's OLS business segment is focused on laser sources and optical sub-systems primarily used in microelectronics manufacturing, medical diagnostics and therapeutic medical applications, as well as in scientific research. The company's ILS business segment delivers laser sources, sub-systems and tools used for industrial laser materials processing, serving end markets like automotive, machine tool, consumer goods and medical device manufacturing.

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutics for rare endocrine diseases and endocrine-related tumors. CRN00808, the company's primary product candidate, establishes oral selective nonpeptide somatostatin receptor type 2 (sst2) biased agonists designed for the treatment of acromegaly. CRN01941, an oral nonpeptide sst2 biased agonist, is designed for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors that originate from neuroendocrine cells commonly found in the gut, lung or pancreas. The company is developing a class of oral selective nonpeptide somatostatin type 5 receptor agonists designed to treat congenital hyperinsulinism.

Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc.

Cullen/Frost Bankers is a financial holding company and a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of products and services throughout various Texas markets. The company provides commercial and consumer banking services, as well as trust and investment management, insurance, brokerage, mutual funds, leasing, treasury management, capital markets advisory and item processing services. The company serves a variety of industries including, among others, energy, manufacturing, services, construction, retail, telecommunications, healthcare, military and transportation. The company's reportable operating segments are: Banking and Frost Wealth Advisors.

East West Bancorp Inc.

East West Bancorp is a bank holding company for East West Bank (the Bank). Through its network of banking locations, the Bank provides a range of personal and commercial banking services to businesses and individuals. The Bank also provides a range of deposit products that include personal and business checking and savings accounts, money market, time deposits, individual retirement accounts and provides foreign exchange, and wealth management services. The Bank's lending activities include commercial and residential real estate, lines of credit, construction, trade finance, letters of credit, commercial business, housing loans, asset-based lending and equipment financing.

Flexsteel Industries Inc.

Flexsteel Industries is a manufacturer, importer and marketer of residential and contract upholstered and wooden furniture products. With offerings for use in home, healthcare, and recreational seating, the company distributes its furniture throughout the United States and Canada through the company's sales force and various independent representatives. The company operates in one reportable segment, furniture products. The company's furniture products business involves the distribution of manufactured and imported products consisting of a line of upholstered and wooden furniture for residential and contract markets.

Halliburton Company

Halliburton assists its customers throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir, from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion and optimizing production throughout the life of the asset. The company's segments are: Completion and Production, which delivers cementing, stimulation, intervention, pressure control, specialty chemicals, artificial lift and completion products and services; and Drilling and Evaluation, which provides field and reservoir modeling, drilling, evaluation and wellbore placement solutions that enable customers to model, measure, drill and optimize their well construction activities.

Hancock Whitney Corporation

Hancock Whitney is a financial holding company. Through its bank subsidiary, Hancock Whitney Bank (the Bank), the company provides a network of full service financial choices. The Bank provides a range of online banking services to commercial, small business and retail customers, providing a variety of transaction and savings deposit products, treasury management services, secured and unsecured loan products (including revolving credit facilities), and letters of credit and similar financial guarantees. The Bank also provides trust and investment management services to retirement plans, corporations and individuals.

Home BancShares Inc.

Home Bancshares is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Centennial Bank (the Bank), the company is primarily engaged in providing a range of commercial and retail banking and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals and municipalities. The Bank has branch locations in Arkansas, Florida, South Alabama and New York City. The company originates loans secured by single and multi-family real estate, residential construction and commercial buildings. The company also provides a range of deposit services, including checking, savings, money market accounts and certificates of deposit.

Hooker Furniture Corp.

Hooker Furniture is a designer, marketer and importer of casegoods (wooden and metal furniture), leather furniture and fabric-upholstered furniture. The company is organized into two segments: Hooker Branded, which includes Hooker Casegoods that covers a range of design categories and includes home entertainment, home office, accent, dining and bedroom furniture in the upper-medium price points sold under the Hooker Furniture brand; and Home Meridian, which includes Accentrics Home, home furnishings centered around a mix of pieces and materials that provide a take on home fashion, and Samuel Lawrence Furniture, focuses on offerings in bedroom, dining room, home office and youth furnishings.

JELD-WEN Holding Inc.

JELD-WEN Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a door and window manufacturer. The company designs, produces, and distributes a range of interior and exterior doors, wood, vinyl, and aluminum windows, and related products for use in the construction and repair and remodel of residential homes and, to a lesser extent, non-residential buildings. The company markets its products under the JELD-WEN brand, along with several brands such as Swedoor and DANA in Europe and Corinthian, Stegbar, and Trend in Australia. The company's customers include wholesale distributors and retailers as well as individual contractors and consumers. The company has three segments: North America, Europe, and Australasia.

Lear Corporation

Lear is a supplier to the automotive industry. The company supplies seating, electrical distribution systems and electronic modules, as well as related sub-systems, components and software, to automotive manufacturers. The company has two segments: Seating, which consists of the design, development, engineering, just-in-time assembly and delivery of seat systems, and the design, development, engineering and manufacture of seat components; and E-Systems, which consists of the design, development, engineering and manufacture of electrical distribution systems, and electronic control modules, electrification products, connectivity products and software solutions for the cloud, vehicles and mobile devices.

Luminex Corp

Luminex develops, manufactures and sells biological testing technologies and products with applications in the life sciences industries, including diagnostics, pharmaceutical and research. The company delivers its products to various market segments, including multiplexing, reduction of labor and ability to test for proteins and nucleic acids. The company's products include: instruments, which include Luminex? 100/200?, FLEXMAP? 3D, MAGPIX?, ARIES?, and ARIES? M1; consumables, which include MicroPlex? Microspheres, MagPlex? Microspheres, and xTAG? Microspheres; software, which includes xPONENT?, TDAS?, SYNCT?, and IDEAS?; and clinical diagnostic assay product families, which include ARIES? Cassettes.

Matador Resources Company

Matador Resources is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development, production and acquisition of oil and natural gas resources in the United States, with a focus on oil and natural gas shale and other unconventional plays. The company's operations are focused on the oil and liquids-rich portion of the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring plays in the Delaware Basin in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. The company also operates in the Eagle Ford shale play in South Texas and the Haynesville shale and Cotton Valley plays in Northwest Louisiana. Also, the company conducts midstream operations, through its midstream joint venture, San Mateo Midstream, LLC together with San Mateo Midstream II, LLC.

Maxar Technologies Inc.

Maxar Technologies is engaged in the provision of information solutions that capture and process large amounts of data, produce essential information, and improve the decision making and operational performance of business and government organizations worldwide. Co.'s business is focused on information solutions for market sectors which offer repeat business potential, principally the surveillance and intelligence sector and the communication sector. In addition, Co. conducts a broad range of customer funded advanced technology development for various other market sectors.

MEDNAX Inc.

MEDNAX provides physician services including newborn, anesthesia, maternal-fetal, radiology and teleradiology, pediatric cardiology and other pediatric subspecialty care. The company's network comprised of physicians, including physicians who provide neonatal clinical care, primarily within hospital-based neonatal intensive care units, to babies born prematurely or with medical complications. The company also provides radiology services and teleradiology services. In addition to its national physician network, the company provides services to healthcare facilities and physicians, including the company's, through complementary businesses, consisting of a management services organization and a consulting services company.

MSC Industrial Direct Co. Inc. Class A

MSC Industrial Direct Co. is a distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services. The company provides stock-keeping units through its eCommerce channels, including its website, mscdirect.com; its inventory management solutions; catalogs and brochures; and call-centers and branches. The company's range of MRO products includes cutting tools, measuring instruments, tooling components, metalworking products, fasteners, flat stock, raw materials, abrasives, machinery hand and power tools, safety and janitorial supplies, plumbing supplies, materials handling products, power transmission components, and electrical supplies.

National Beverage Corp.

National Beverage is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company develops, produces, markets and sells a range of sparkling waters, juices, energy drinks and carbonated soft drinks. The company's brands consist of beverages for active and health-conscious consumer (Power+ Brands) including sparkling waters, energy drinks, and juices. The company's portfolio of Power+ Brands includes LaCroix?, LaCroix Curate?, LaCroix NiCola? and Shasta? Sparkling Water products; Rip It? energy drinks and shots; and Everfresh?, Everfresh Premier Varietals? and Mr. Pure? 100% juice and juice-based products. Additionally, the company produces and distributes carbonated soft drinks including Shasta? and Faygo? brands.

NOV Inc.

National Oilwell Varco is an independent provider of equipment and technology to the upstream oil and gas industry. The company's segments include: Wellbore Technologies, which designs, manufactures, rents, and sells a variety of equipment and technologies used to perform drilling operations; Completion and Production Solutions, which designs, manufactures, and sells equipment and technologies for hydraulic fracture stimulation, well intervention, onshore production, and offshore production; and Rig Technologies, which designs, manufactures and sells land rigs, offshore drilling equipment packages, and drilling rig components that mechanize and automate the drilling process and rig functionality.

Orion Engineered Carbons SA

Parsley Energy Inc. Class A

Parsley Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an independent oil and natural gas company focused on the acquisition, development, exploration and production of unconventional oil and natural gas properties in the Permian Basin. The Permian Basin is located in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The company's properties are located in two sub areas of the Permian Basin, the Midland and Delaware Basins, where the company focuses on horizontal development drilling.

Polaris Inc.

Polaris designs, engineers and manufactures powersports vehicles which include, off-road vehicles, including all-terrain vehicles and side-by-side vehicles for recreational and utility use, snowmobiles, motorcycles, global adjacent markets vehicles, including commercial, government and defense vehicles, and boats. The company's products, together with related Parts, Garments and Accessories, as well as aftermarket accessories and apparel, are sold through dealers, distributors and retail stores principally located in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and Mexico.

RCI Hospitality Holdings

RCI Hospitality Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the hospitality and related businesses. The company's reportable segments include: Nightclubs, which owns and/or operates adult nightclubs serving primarily businessmen and personnel, and also owns and operates a Studio 80 dance club; and Bombshells, which owns and operates restaurants and sports bars under the brand name Bombshells Restaurant & Bar. The company's subsidiaries own a media division, including the trade magazine serving the adult nightclubs industry and the adult retail products industry. The company also owns an industry trade show, an industry trade publication and various industry and social media websites.

Robert Half International Inc.

Robert Half International provides staffing and risk consulting services. The company, through its Accountemps, Robert Half Finance & Accounting, and Robert Half Management Resources divisions, is a provider of temporary, full-time, and project personnel in accounting and finance fields. The company's OfficeTeam division places office and administrative personnel, ranging from executive and administrative assistants to receptionists and customer service representatives. The Robert Half Technology division provides information technology contract consultants, places employees, and provides managed services in areas ranging from multiple platform systems integration to end-user technical and desktop support.

Schlumberger NV

Schlumberger provides technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production and processing to the oil and gas industry. The company has four segments: Reservoir Characterization, which consists of the principal technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources; Drilling, which consists of the principal technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells; Production, which consists of the principal technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs; and Cameron, which consists of the principal technologies involved in pressure and flow control for drilling and intervention rigs, oil and gas wells and production facilities.

Sientra

Sientra is a medical aesthetics company that focuses on serving board-certified plastic surgeons and provides a portfolio of silicone shaped and round breast implants, scar management, tissue expanders, and body contouring products. The company conducts its business in two operating segments: Breast Products and miraDry. The Breast Products segment focuses on sales of its breast implants, tissue expanders and scar management products under the brands OPUS, AlloX2, Dermaspan, Softspan and BIOCORNEUM. The miraDry segment focuses on sales of the miraDry System and bioTips. The company's primary products are silicone gel breast implants for use in breast augmentation and breast reconstruction procedures.

Signet Jewelers Limited

Sonos

Sonos designs, develops, manufactures and sells multi-room audio products. The Sonos home sound system provides customers with a listening activity created by the design of its speakers and components, a proprietary software platform and the ability to stream content from a variety of sources over the customer's wireless network or over Bluetooth. The company's products are sold via third-party retail stores, including custom installers of home audio systems. The company also sells via select e-commerce retailers and its website sonos.com. The company's products are distributed through its wholly owned subsidiaries: Sonos Europe B.V., Beijing Sonos Technology Co., Ltd., Sonos Japan GK and Sonos Australia Pty Ltd.

SPARTANNASH CO

SpartanNash is a grocery distributor and grocery retailer. The company operates three segments: Food Distribution, which provides grocery products and perishable food products to independent retailers, the company's corporate owned retail stores, food service distributors and various other customers; Military, which contracts with manufacturers to distribute a range of grocery products, including dry groceries, beverages, meat, and frozen foods, primarily to military commissaries and exchanges; and Retail, which operated corporate owned retail stores in the Midwest region primarily under banners including Family Fare Supermarkets, D&W Fresh Markets, VG's Grocery, Dan's Supermarket and Family Fresh Market.

Steel Dynamics Inc.

Steel Dynamics is a steel producer and metal recycler. The company manufactures and sells steel products, processes and sells recycled ferrous and nonferrous metals, and fabricates and sells steel joists and deck products. The company's segments are: Steel, which produces steel from ferrous scrap and scrap substitutes, utilizing casting, automated rolling mills and several downstream steel coating and bar processing lines, and Iron Dynamics; metals recycling, which involves the purchase, processing, and resale of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals into reusable forms and grades; and steel fabrication, which produces steel building components, including steel joists, girders, trusses, and steel deck.

Teekay Corporation

Texas Roadhouse Inc.

Texas Roadhouse is a restaurant company operating predominately in the casual dining segment. The company operates Texas Roadhouse restaurants and Bubba's 33 restaurants. In addition, the company operates restaurants outside of the casual dining segment. The Texas Roadhouse restaurants provide an assortment of steaks hand-cut on the premises and cooked to order over open grills. In addition to steaks, the company also provides its guests a selection of ribs, seafood, chicken, pork chops, pulled pork and vegetable plates, hamburgers, salads and sandwiches. Bubba's 33 is a sports restaurant. The company's menu features burgers, pizza and wings as well as a variety of appetizers, sandwiches and dinner entrees.

TimkenSteel Corp

TimkenSteel manufactures alloy steel, carbon and micro-alloy steel. The company's portfolio includes special bar quality (SBQ) bars, seamless mechanical tubing, solutions such as precision steel components, and billets. In addition, the company supplies machining and thermal treatment services, and the company manages raw material recycling programs. The company's products and services are used in the following market sectors: oil and gas; oil country tubular goods; automotive; industrial equipment; mining; construction; rail; aerospace and defense; heavy truck; agriculture; and power generation. The company's products include: SBQ Steel Bar, Seamless Mechanical Steel Tubes, and Billets; and Precision Products and Services.

Tribune Publishing Company

Tribune Publishing together with its subsidiaries is a media company. The company operates local media businesses in eight markets with titles including the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, The Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida's Sun Sentinel, Virginia's Daily Press and The Virginian-Pilot, The Morning Call of Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania and the Hartford Courant. The company also operates Tribune Content Agency. The company's segments are: M, which consists of the following publication types: daily newspapers; weekly newspapers; and niche publications and direct mail; and X, which consist of the company's digital operations and includes its digital revenues and related digital expenses.

USANA Health Sciences Inc.

USANA Health Sciences develops and manufactures nutritional and personal care products. The company's principal product lines include: USANA? Nutritionals Essentials/CellSentials?, which inclides vitamin and mineral supplements that provide body nutrition for every age group beginning with children 13 months of age; Optimizers, which consists of targeted supplements designed to meet individual health and nutritional needs, such as cardiovascular health, skeletal/structural health, and digestive health; and Foods, which includes low-glycemic meal replacement shakes, snack bars, and other related products that provide macro-nutrition (carbohydrates, proteins, and fats) in various formats.

Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital is a developer, manufacturer, and provider of data storage devices and solutions. The company's portfolio of technology and products address the following markets: Client Devices, which consist of hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, flash-based embedded storage products, and flash-based memory wafers and components; Data Center Devices and Solutions, which consist of enterprise HDDs and enterprise SSDs, data center software and system solutions; and Client Solutions, which consist of HDDs and SSDs embedded into external storage products and removable flash-based products, such as cards, universal serial bus flash drives and wireless drives.

Wintrust Financial Corporation

Wintrust Financial is a financial holding company.Through its community banking segment, the company's banking subsidiaries provide community-oriented, personal and commercial banking services. Through its specialty finance segment, the company provides financing of insurance premiums for businesses and individuals; accounts receivable financing, out-sourced administrative services; and other finance businesses. Through its wealth management segment, the company provides a range of wealth management services including trust and investment services, tax-deferred like-kind exchange services, asset management, securities brokerage services and 401(k) and retirement plan services.

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